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My blushing Bride (of 32-years) and I were on our way to Market Basket (local grocery chain for the non-New England readers), and the recent week of warmer temps came up. Growing up in uppah-state New York, between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes, every January, there was a week of warmer weather. Every year. … Read more
It reached 100 degrees in New Hampshire’s largest city today. It’s no surprise that the spot with the most asphalt and concrete was slightly warmer than the rest. It’s the largest heat island in the state, but if you dare suggest that these urban encroachments have corrupted the temperature data, you’ll get a good talking … Read more
On May 24th, 2006, the so-called climate documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ exposed Americans to sore loser Al Gore’s post-public-office wealth accumulation strategy: peddle fear and cherry-pick data into the perception of expertise, scaremonger bad science to sell people on ideas he would invest in. Al did his speaking tours, got lots of earned media for … Read more
As the 2025 legislative session winds its way toward the finish line, minority party Vermont Republicans are trying their best to act on the loud and clear message sent by voters last November in regard to such laws as the Clean Heat Carbon Tax, electric cars and trucks adoption mandates, mandates for more expensive renewable … Read more
Property rights throughout our nation and around the world suffer because a supposed environmental doomsday is coming. Socialists are marketing this emotion-triggering threat to limit and control property rights. The evil nature legalizing this silent plunder turns the purpose of government to protect life and property upside down. Once again, the age-old strategy of using … Read more
The chair of the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee and Kool-Aid filled climate change religionist, recently penned an op-ed essentially calling on Governor Scott to clean up the catastrophic climate policy mess she and her party created – and blaming him for the mess. It’s a craven political Hail Mary. Let’s take her argument … Read more
My state relies far too much on Federal handouts, but I have long advocated for a divorce from that arrangement. A Sugar Daddy can be demanding when you are on the Federal dole because it can claim to represent (or look out for) the interests of those whose money it is giving away. DOGE has … Read more
Hawaii Democrats have advanced a bill that would clear the way for individuals and insurers adversely affected by an “event attributable to climate change” to sue companies and other entities for spreading climate “misinformation.” S.B. 1166, introduced by Democratic Hawaii State Sen. Chris Lee, aims to “provide a new, specific cause of action for any … Read more
A throwaway line during a presentation on Vermont’s Climate Change agenda, how much it costs and how much money we’ll have for it in the future, stole the show this week. The Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) was giving an overview of the OVER HALF A BILLION DOLLARS a year Vermonters spend on climate change … Read more
The climate cult is coming for man’s best friend. It was only a matter of time before climate-obsessed scientists would set their sights on the greatest animal on the planet: Dogs. In a study from the Pacific Conservation Biology journal, Australian scientists claimed that dogs have “extensive and multifarious” impacts on the environment, including waterway pollution and … Read more
It’s no surprise to regular readers of Behind the Lines that the so-called “Green” agenda is really just a wealthfare scam designed to make lower-income, rural folks subsidize the high-ticket item toys of their better off neighbors (and the lucrative employment of a large and politically powerful class of otherwise useless bureaucrats and NGO operatives, … Read more
While it’s true a majority of Vermonters love the hypothetical (and fantastical) notion of our little state saving the planet from climate change by going “net zero” or some such thing, it’s also true that an even larger majority has absolutely net zero interest in paying for (or living with) the programs designed to do … Read more
Regulatory pincers, foreign and domestic. The European Union (EU) is facing off with the United States over tariffs, war with Russia, and increased regulations governing corporations doing business on the continent. Some claim globalist NGOs exert undue influence over modern Europe through the union: Pending laws that seek to impose environmental and social rules on … Read more
If you are unfamiliar with their name, you have likely heard about how they conduct themselves. Just Stop Oil throws soup on paintings (to just stop oil paintings?), gets members run over by angry motorists (when they block highways), and does what are called direct action protests. They behave like a**holes and piss people off. … Read more
In 2024, the Vermont legislature charged the State Treasurer’s Office with studying what a “Cap & Invest” program would look like as a means for meeting the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) targets for greenhouse gas reduction in the transportation sector (aka you driving your car). That report is now complete, and, just as the Public Utilities … Read more
You’ll get different answers depending on who you ask. I’m referring to the two-season jokes: winter and Construction, winter and bugs, Pumpkin Spice and everything else. I’m sure I’ve missed a few, but drought season is one of my favorite topics. I don’t like droughts, but my town has been acting like we’ve been in … Read more
Late last year, there was a big to-do about nothing in the Green Mountain State. The “nothing” is that by reducing its “emissions,” Vermont will somehow save something – not money, they are burning that like used tires. It’s okay, it’s not the legislator’s money. However, as the deadline approached, some estimates had them missing … Read more
You’d think that with everything happening in the realm of energy policy – the need to do something about the trainwreck Clean Heat Standard, the failure to meet the first Global Warming Solutions Act mandate for 2025, the lawsuit resulting from that, the projection that we’ll miss the 2030 deadline as well, the threatened cuts … Read more
Good governance utilizing democratic processes, capitalist economies, meritocracy and healthy work ethic, and the Rules of Law and Private Property (among other things) have raised billions out of abject poverty. From a world where poverty was the normal state of being for thousands of years of human existence. Yet, one of Lloyd Alter’s Carbon Upfront! … Read more
When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President’s envisioned NetZero future out the door before the fiscal year ended on Sept. 30? The task was complicated by the fact most of the money – $20 … Read more